Chapter 26: Sweet candy and midnight screech (2/2)
“Who the hell are you, how did you come in!”
An exceptionally astonished and angry scream echoed at this time. A black shadow rushed inside the ward with a shrill windy sound, just like a bat. This black shadow pushed him against the wall. Ayrin couldn’t oppose the slightest resistance.
“Teacher, he’s my friend, no need to worry.”
Ayrin only noticed after hearing Chris’ voice that the one clutching his neck and pressing him against the wall was a thirty-something short-haired female arcane master with a face white as snow.
This female arcane master’s body trembled nonstop.
She still couldn’t believe at all what she saw with her own eyes. This was a sickbay area heavily protected by arcane masters of the medical branch, and there were also battlemasters helping with the site’s security with their patrols outside. Everyone here was on high alert because of Namin’s special order. What no one could imagine was, someone actually found their way inside and was even feeding something to Chris!
After rushing inside, she’d already decided it was an ordinary candy from the smell, that was why she wasn’t heavy-handed when dealing with Ayrin. Still, cold sweat covered her from head to toe.
Chris was the most elite student in the academy, she was the academy’s most treasured asset. She just couldn’t imagine the result if the one who’d sneaked in had been an enemy feeding Chris something harmful instead.
She couldn’t even speak for a short while.
“Swish!”
“Swish!”
“Swish!”…
A dozen shadows arrived in this room in an instant, whistling through the air, dashing in from the windows or the door.
The big empty spacious room became congested with people in an instant.
“How did you come in!”
“You actually secretly sneaked in here?”
All the arcane masters inside the room were thoroughly shocked, their expressions all unsightly to the extreme.
“I came in from the rear wall.” Seeing those arcane masters’ expressions, Ayrin realized severe punishment would probably be oncoming, so he gave Chris a wink. He didn’t want to expose Belo, he didn’t mind shouldering the punishments by himself.
An arcane master with hair wrapped in blue cloth shouted in a stern voice, veins popping on his forehead, “Details, speak up!”
“There’s a tunnel in the small woods behind, it connects to a sewer…”
“Go check immediately, see if his first sentence is true or not!” This arcane master immediately issued a command.
A silhouette immediately turned into a blurry shadow and shot out. It skimmed back from the windows not even one minute later. “It’s indeed there.”
“How did you know there’s such a tunnel! What did you do after you came in?”
Just as Ayrin was considering how to answer, an urgent warning cry suddenly rang in the night. This warning cry very much resembled the piercing call of a bird.
“What happened?” All the arcane masters inside the room shook, their expressions becoming even more unsightly.
“The members of team Southern Monsoon all disappeared!”
Another arcane master rushed in, dazed and beside himself. “There’s a side door open. Someone must have infiltrated in while you all hurried here and taken all those wounded people away.”
“What!”
The leading arcane master with his hair wrapped in blue cloth was sweating cold sweat. It dripped down from his face as if it were flowing water. “Why didn’t you chase behind if you saw the side door open!”
“I already did, haven’t found them yet!”
“Who the hell are you!” Several arcane masters closed in on Ayrin who stood there dumbfounded.
“Don’t be anxious, just let us handle it.” A crisp female voice came at this moment.
“It’s Ciaran!” The arcane masters inside the room all looked at each other, all heaving a sigh of relief.
…
Ferdinand woke up from his dreams.
At first he thought the bed felt really hard, totally different from how soft it was before.
Then he suddenly discovered myriads of stars hanging above his head. He wasn’t inside the room, but in a wide open space!
Following that, he noticed he was simply in the desolate countryside!
“Ah!”
He shrieked the next second. He had no idea what was happening. He and Riley and the others should have been comfortably lying inside Holy Dawn Academy’s infirmary. But now he could see that he and his teammates had all been rolled up, together with their bedding, and thrown onto a wild grassland. In addition, the surroundings were filled with burial mounds brimming with ghastly, ghostly auras. It was a cemetery!
“Impossible! Why are we here?”
Crewe was awake now, wakened by the loudness of his yell. And then he also became totally confused by the situation and let out a loud frightened yell.
“Hmph, you actually dare poach someone from my Holy Dawn Academy in broad daylight, you totally disregard me. I’ll let you see some ghosts!”
“Acting so arrogant to my face…”
The back of a seeming gentle figure traveled in the desolate forest near this cemetery, whispering arrogantly to himself. Not far away, shrieks rose one by one from the Southern Monsoon team members.
“This guy, he spent so much effort just to do something like that and blow off some steam. Really worthy of the Impulsive Freshman who had the guts to break into the Beasts Enclosure.”
A soft lazy voice rose very quickly on the edges of the wild forest. “He’s actually able to lure so many people away and take these people here. I didn’t even have that kind of talent back then.”
“Liszt, how should we deal with that little guy?” Minlur’s coarse voice also rose very quickly.
“It’s just a kid’s mischief, no need to bother.” Liszt smiled. “I’m guessing it won’t be long before you get the opportunity to teach them and sort them out.”